Subject: Re: Jornada 680 asks for "root device"
To: Michael Wileman <jwileman@panix.com>
From: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr>
List: port-hpcsh
Date: 06/26/2005 01:08:42
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Hi there.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:42:50PM -0400, Michael Wileman wrote:
> When I boot using hpcboot, the booting process starts, until I get
> 
> wskbd2 at hpckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
> boot device: <unknown>
> root device:
> 
> It doesn't seem to find my wd0a root setup.

Can you provide the output of disklabel and fdisk and the dmesg
information for your cf card? There may be something wrong with your
partitioning.

> I had assumed the kernel binary would automatically look for wd0. 

It does...

> Do I have to recompile the kernel to recognize my CF card.

Look at the boot messages. If you see something like:
wd0 at atabus drive 0: <your cf disk model here>
then your kernel does recognize your cf card.

Hmmm... Now that I'm looking at my nada's dmesg, I see the wd0-related
lines coming after wskbd-blah and before boot-device-blah, so you may
actually have a problem with your CF, although rather improbable. BTW
which cf card do you use?

> Did anyone else here have this problem trying to install 2.0 on a
> Jornada?

Never tried with 2.0. I went straight for CURRENT (3.99.3 at the moment)
on my 690 with great success[1]. You can grab a -current snapshot from
releng.netbsd.org and start from there. Alternatively, I can set up an
ftp with the sets I compiled and use for my Jornada.

\n\n

[1] http://noth.ceid.upatras.gr/Computers/dmesgs/dmesg.nada
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